A 25-year-old man who planned to attack a restaurant in upstate New York on New Year's Eve has been arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to Islamic State, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.<br />Emanuel L. Lutchman, "claiming to receive direction from an overseas ISIS member, planned to commit an armed attack against civilians at a restaurant/bar located in the Rochester, New York, area today," the department said in a statement.<br />Security at Times Square in NYC for New Year's Eve A criminal complaint against Lutchman, who appeared in US District Court for the Western District of New York on Thursday, described him as a "self-professed Muslim convert with a criminal history dating back to approximately 2006... as well as previous state mental hygiene arrests."
